Robert Eggers has zero plans to make up to date motion pictures, that includes modern-day innovations and know-how.
The Nosferatu director just lately advised Rotten Tomatoes that the concept of constructing such initiatives makes him really feel “in poor health.”
“The concept of getting to {photograph} a automobile makes me in poor health,” Eggers mentioned. “And the concept of photographing a cellphone is simply loss of life. And to make a up to date story you must {photograph} a cellphone — it’s simply how life is — so no [I won’t be making any modern-set films].”
The filmmaker has helmed a number of initiatives which have spanned durations from 1630s and Eighteen Nineties New England to the Viking Period, together with 2015’s The Witch, 2019’s The Lighthouse and 2022’s The Northman, respectively. Most just lately, Nosferatu, starring Lily-Rose Depp, Nicholas Hoult and Invoice Skarsgård, was set in 1830s Transylvania.
Elsewhere within the interview, Eggers was requested precisely how trendy he would probably go for a venture. He responded, “I don’t know. I would go probably to 1950 however earlier than World Struggle II is extra inviting for my creativeness.”
Trying forward, it seems Eggers is sticking to his time-period consolation zone together with his subsequent function, Werwulf, a werewolf horror venture. The filmmaker additionally co-wrote the movie with Sjón. Whereas particulars are scarce, sources say the story is ready in thirteenth century England. He’s additionally reportedly set to jot down and direct a sequel to the 1986’s Labyrinth.
Eggers’ Nosferatu, a remake of 1922’s Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror, was a gothic story of obsession between a haunted younger girl and the terrifying vampire infatuated along with her, inflicting untold horror in its wake. The movie earned 4 Oscar nominations.
